Chryseobacterium indologenes Septicemia in an Infant

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of Chryseobacterium  indologenes infections in pediatric patients.

Patient no.	Reference/year	Age/sex	Comorbidity	Medical devices present	Clinical syndrome	Antibiotic	Outcome
1	Hsueh et al., 1996 [2, 6]	1 mo/M	Burns	Ventilator	Ventilator-associated pneumonia	Ciprofloxacin, cefoxitin, amikacin	Died (ARDS)
2	Hsueh et al., 1996 [2, 6]	5 mo/F	Neuroblastoma, chemotherapy	Hickman catheter	Bacteremia	Not stated	Recovery without removal of catheter (after 3 days)
3	Hsueh et al., 1996 [2, 6]	1 mo/F	Hepatoblastoma, chemotherapy	Port-A-catheter	Bacteremia	Not stated	Recovery without removal of catheter (after 3 days)
4	Cascio et al., 2005 [13]	2 y/M	Type 1 diabetes mellitus	Peripheral catheter	Bacteremia	Ceftriaxone, 10 days	Recovery with removal of catheter (afebrile after 2 days)
5	Al-Tatari et al., 2007 [14]	13 y/M	Congenital hydrocephalus	Lumboperitoneal shunt	Lumboperitoneal shunt infection	TMP-SMX and rifampin (for 14 d after shunt removal)	Recovery 24 h after shunt removal
6	Bayraktar et al., 2007 [15]	5 mo/M	Down syndrome, operation for atrial septal defect and diaphragmatic hernia	Mechanical ventilation	Bacteremia	Vancomycin and ofloxacin	Died
7	Douvoyiannis et al., 2010 [16]	33 d/F	None	None	Bacteremia	Cefepime, 10 days	Recovery (afebrile after a day)
8	Ceylan et al., 2011 [17]	2 mo/M	Hydrocephaly	External shunt	Meningitis sepsis	Ampicillin sulbactam and levofloxacin	Died (cardiopulmonary arrest)
9	Calderón et al., 2011 [8]	20 d/M	Congenital heart disease	Mechanical ventilation	Ventilator-associated pneumonia	Piperacillin-tazobactam (14 days)	Recovery
10	Kodama et al., 2013 [18]	3 y/F	Acute myeloid leukemia unrelated cord blood stem cell transplantation	Central venous catheter	Catheter-related bloodstream infection	Ciprofloxacin and minocycline	Recovery with removal of catheter
11	Ozcan et al., 2013 [19]	6 mo/M	Congenital hydrocephalus, prematurity	Ventriculoperitoneal shunt	Meningitis	TMP-SMX and cefoperazone-sulbactam (14 days)	Recovery with removal of shunt
12	Hendaus et al., 2013 [20]	8 d/F	None	None	Meningitis	Cefepime (21 days)	Recovery (afebrile after 2 days)
13	Eshwara et al., 2014 [10]	6 d/F	Small for gestational age	None	Meningitis sepsis	TMP-SMX (2 weeks) and ciprofloxacin (6 weeks)	Recovery
14	Olbrich et al., 2014 [21]	11 mo/M	Holoprosencephaly, suboptimal hygienic conditions	Ventriculoperitoneal shunt	Meningitis	TMP-SMX and ceftazidime (21 days)	Recovery (afebrile in 24 h) with complete removal of the cerebrospinal shunt system
15	This study, 2014	3 mo/F	Congenital heart disease	Central venous catheter	Bacteremia	TMP-SMX (21 days)	Recovery (afebrile after 2 days)